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Nathaniel's pov.
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"Mom wants you to come to dinner tonight" Nevada said while eating the leftover muffins.

"I'll pass" I said cleaning up the shop for tomorrow, we don't open on Sundays, unless stated otherwise.

"Figured you'd say that. Anyway, what's this I hear about you blushing over a gorgeous woman"

"How do you know that?" I asked feeling my ears turn red

"So it is true?" she said the squealed

"No" I said while pouting

"She must be something if you can't hit me something sarcastic" she said giggling to herself then inhaled an entire muffin

"Shouldn't you be somewhere that isn't here?"

"If I go home now, mom will try setting me up with someone and I'm not interested" she said

"You already have that detective who wants to be up your ass" I said and had cream thrown at me which made me laugh.

After she helped me clean up, by washing her plate, we decided on having lunch. We got a table close to the door because I didn't want to be anywhere near the table filled with the women in pink. Like all of them were wearing pink, I've watched enough movies to know that I should steer clear of them, although now I wish we did sit near them because the moment we opened our menu my other siblings walked in

"What's it like being such a big man running a fucking bakery Damien?" Bruce, my brother, said sitting down with us

"Come on Bruce, stop being an ass" Nevada said as my other sister pulled out a chair

"It was a simple question Nevada" Angel said making me sigh. Angel is the last born, the pride and joy of my family, then Bruce is second last, Nevada is the second born and unfortunately, I'm the firstborn.

"Why are you here?" I asked

"What? We can't eat out now? The world doesn't revolve around you" Angel said making Nevada sigh

"I meant, here at our table, why are you here when there are literally 6 other empty tables?" I asked

"Can't we sit with family? We haven't seen you in almost seven years now" Bruce said

"Since when have you considered me family Bruce?" I asked and he just stared at me
"Besides, I opened the bakery 4 years ago and you know about it, so clearly you could come visit me if you wanted to"

"That is true, but we wouldn't want people knowing that we're still in contact now do we?" Bruce said making Angel nod

"Are you ever gonna be in a relationship or better yet get married?" Angel asked while I sighed.
I do loathe my mother and despise my father but for some reason, I can't hate my siblings. They do say some hurtful ass things but I don't blame them for growing up with a woman as fucked up in the head as my mother, I blame myself more for not being able to stand up for myself and sometimes blame my father for leaving us with her

"I'll get married when I want to Angelica, not because I was told to" I said making her roll her eyes and mumble something about me being a selfish prick.

I zoned out of their conversation as they talked to Nevada about something. I thought about how my life ended up the way it did. How I should have stayed home until Nevada was old enough to leave so she didn't get the 'better half' of my mother. Don't get me wrong though, she never laid a hand on Nevada, but she has had things thrown at her when mother was drunk, that's when Nevada and I got even closer because only we knew what she was really like. I was woken from my thoughts when a hand was placed on mine